Stock-waterer.



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No. 653,280. i G. Vs. RANDLE. STOCK WATERER.

(Application led July 5, 1900A @No Model.)

3 UNITED 'STATI-3s PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE s IMMONs RANDLE, or PRATT, KANsAs. l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,280, dated September 18, 1900. Application tiled July 5, 1900. Serial N0- 22,602 (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE SIMMONS RAN- DLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pratt, in the county of Pratt and State of Kansas, have invented'a new and useful Stock- Waterer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stock-waterers, and has for its object to provide an improved device of this character which is especially designed for the use of poultry, although capable of employment for the use of animals by increasing the. size of the device. It is furthermore designed to provide for the convenient iilling of the reservoir or receptacle for containing water and to provide an improved manner of gradually and automatically supplying the water from the reservoir to the drinking-cup, so as to maintain a proper amount of water within the latter and to prevent the same from being overliowed.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described,shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understoodthat changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made Within the scope of the claims without departing from the-spirit or sacricing any of the advantages 'of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stock-Waterer constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View thereof.

Corresponding parts are designated by like characters of reference in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body ofthe device, which is preferably formed by a cylindrical metallic can of suitable size, having its upper end 2 normally closed and its lower end open and inserted within the drin king-cup 3. This can or reservoir is supported by means of the diametrieally-opposite rods or spindles 4, that have their outer ends journaled in the respective posts 5, which are either driven into the ground or rise from a suitable base or sill 6. The can is normally in inverted position-c'. c., with louter side of the can or receptacle l.

vthe open end directed downwardly-the can being held in this position by means of a hook '7, loosely connected to one of the posts or standards and engaged with an eye 8 upon `the adjacent external portion of the can. By

reason of the pivotal support of the can the latter may be inverted, so as to bring the .open end thereof to the top in order that the The drinking-cup 3 has an outwardly-dared upstanding marginal flange l0, which dares away from Vthe can, so as to provide an annular trough from which the poultry and stock may conveniently drink. Rising from the flat bottom of the cup is an inner annular flange 11, which embraces the Open end of the can, the marginal edge of the latter resting iiush upon the bottom of the cup. Rising from diametrically-opposite sides of the flange 1.1 and alined at substantially right angles to the spindles 4 are the inverted substantially L-shaped catches 12, which project a suitable distance above the upper edge of fiange and have their upper ends received between pairs of eyes 13, provided upon the Each pair of eyes is preferably formed from a metallic plate 14, which is secured to the can and has its lower portion split or bifurcated and the parts of the plate at opposite sides of the bifurcation being bent to .form the eyes.' Suitable lockingpins l5 are passed through the respective pairs of eyes, so as to extend transversely across the adjacent catch and immediately beneath the lateral head thereof. By this arrangement the drinkingcup is firmly connected to the can and may be conveniently removed therefrom to expose the open end of the can when it is desired to fill the latter with water.

' In order that the water within the can may be supplied to the drinking-cup, the sides of the can are provided with perforations 16, located below the' upper edge of the ange ll, and the latter is provided with openings or perforations 17, located below the perforations in the can. By this arrangement the IOO Water trickles out through the perfo-rations in the can` and flows between the latter and Jthe surrounding ange until it passes out through the perforations in the flange and. empties into the annular trough or drinkingcup. It will of course be understood that the perforations in the flange are located below the upper edge ofthe rim of the drinkingcnp, so that said perforations will'4 be sealed: by the water Withinl the cup before the latter has been overllowedt ikewise the perforations in the can are located below the upper` edge of the cup, so as to be sealed and thereby prevent the overflowing ofthe cup; also, by having the perforations of the can and the flange out oi alinelnent the wateri'eprevented` from splashing out when the can is inverted. To prevent loss of the locking-pins, each of the latter is connected tothe body oi? the device by means of a small chain or othersuitable flexible connection IS, so as to permit of the con venient manipulation of tlie pin to attach and remove the bottonr of the device.

What is claimed is- '1. An invertible stock-waterer, comprising' a can or receptacle having an open lower endl, and provided with lateral perforations adjacent to said end, and a drinking-cup detachably connected. to the openend of the can, and* having anA inner npstanding` marginal flange fitting the lower end of the can, and provided with perforations which are ont of alinernent with those of the can, all of the perforations being located below the upper edge of the cup, and the perforations of the can being located in a dierent cross-sec- 3 tional' plaine from those of the flange.

2. A stock-waterer, comprising a can or receptac'le having a closed upper end, and an =open lower end,. a drinking-cup,` having an linner npstanding marginal flange fitting the lower end ofthe can, an outlet from the latter to the cup,opposite snbstan tially L-'shaped and inverted catches rising from the flange, opposite pairs of eyes located upon opposite sidesof the catches; and removable pins passing through the respective pairs of eyes, transversely across the adjacent; catches, and immediately beneath the heads" thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have heretoaffixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE SIMMONS HANDLE.

Witnesses:

THAD C. CARVER, S. P. GEBHART; 

